CASTRIES, St.Lucia , May 16, CMC-Specialists from the OECS Secretariat are meeting in Basseterre, St Kitts Nevis, this week for a consultation on national and regional measures to better facilitate trade in keeping with the emerging commitments being negotiated on Trade Facilitation in the World Tra...

NEW YORK, CMC - The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), has placed Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago on a watch list of countries that have failed to make the adequate copyright payments for U.S. musical compositions aired in the broadcast media. The USTR also decided to retain Jamaica al...

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC-Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Baldwin Spencer says he is backing new West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) President Dave Cameron to advance the sport in the region. Prime Minister Spencer underlined his confidence in the new WICB president after wide-ranging talks betwee...

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Saturday married Melissa Poponne, “his sweetheart for many years” according to an official statement. The statement from the Office of the Prime Minister said that Skerrit, 40, and Melissa were married at the Bourne Roman Catholic Chapel, fo...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas says it will spend an estimated US$200 million acquiring nine medium-to-long range vessels to augment the Royal Bahamas Defence Force’s (RBDF) fleet. National Security Minister Dr. Bernard J. Nottage says he has signed a Letter of Intent with the Netherlands-based ...

BRADES, Montserrat, CMC - Montserrat has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Kingdom Department for Transport (DfT) as it seeks to put in place international standards for the regulation of the maritime industry. Montserrat is a member of the British Red Ensign Group and opera...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia government has presented an EC$1.32 billion (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) budget to Parliament late Tuesday reducing the subsidies on basic food commodities such as rice and flour and increasing the Value Added Tax (VAT) for the hotel industry. Prime Minist...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - It is possible to have social development when no economic growth is taking place. This, says Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, is because structural changes are taking place which are intended to make life better for a larger number of people. Delivering the feature address at...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The World Bank, under the leadership of President Jim Yong Kim, has focused attention on the ambitious and demanding work to eliminate extreme poverty in the world's population by 2030 and to increase the income of the poorest 40 per cent in order to promote shared prosperi...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica says it will receive assistance from a university in the United States to develop the research capacity of the local agricultural sector. Agriculture Minister Roger Clarke said a delegation from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University has arrived here for ...